I have committed a couple of fixes to the savage driver repository. One problem was that the driver, even when built for an xserver without XAA support, would internally default to XAA instead of EXA nonetheless. Secondly there was an EXA function that needed an update for recent xservers.
This works well for me. The only issue I see now is that console switching does not work, the text consoles are unusable. But I am not sure this is savage-specific since for instance the vesa driver locks up the machine completely if I try to switch consoles. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-savage in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1083032 Title: Video driver not working for Savage chipset Status in X.Org X server: Fix Released Status in “xserver-xorg-video-savage” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: When installing 12.10 on our Thinkpad T22 laptops the display does not work. 12.04 works fine. xserver-xorg-video-s3 is version 1:0.6.5-0ubuntu1 xserver-xorg-video-savage is version 1:2.3.6-0ubuntu1 I don't know if these are the packages involved but they are the ones that I suspect may be involved. This T22 model (and many other thinkpads from that era) use the "S3 Savage IX8" chipsets. Using the info from this link makes the display work. ===== http://www.physics.wustl.edu/~alford/thinkpad/T23_F17.html Xorg :1 -configure # ignore Configuration Failed message cp xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf Edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file: uncomment Option "DisableTile" in the Section "Device" that contains the Savage driver options. ============ To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xorg-server/+bug/1083032/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
